Diego Simeone Quotes

Coaching Netherlands remains one of my ambitions.

Most experts and great leaders agree that leaders are made, not born, and that they are made through their own drive for learning and self-improvement.

I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.

I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn't know where to put it.

I surround myself with people I admire and respect. I have never tried to make anything happen. I don't know how long 'Urinetown' will run on Broadway, and I find myself strangely unconcerned about it.

If you've got aspirations to be a manager or coach, obviously coaching your country would be a great honour.

Passion is what gives meaning to our lives. It's what allows us to achieve success beyond our wildest imagination. Try to find a career path that you have a passion for.

I had set a goal of being a producer by 25.

I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a good story that's a challenge, whether it's big or small. Or that it finds me. I don't have like a career plan. Maybe I should, but I don't.

I told myself I'd stay in until I reached major, and then go on and do something else.

I always had career goals. And I figured out a path I wanted to take to accomplish those goals. If that meant calling the best modeling agency in the world, that's what it meant.

All I like to do is work every day and have an idea what I want to do.

At the end of it, I'll maybe do a coaching badge but I'm not going to get forced into things.

I always believe that, as you start out, while you should have a big dream - a big goal - but it's also important to move step by step. So, you know, frankly, if you ask me, when I started as a management trainee in 1984, I don't know that I really thought that I would become the CEO.

I suppose that I am ambitious.

My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.

If I were a young coach today, I would be extremely careful in selecting assistants.

Maybe I've had a sheltered life and career, but I have so many role models to look up to. It's normal that I would strive to build my own career.

I want to become more successful.

People say you have to know when to retire, which is a dumb thing to say. If you want to go out on top, yeah, it becomes important when you quit. But I wasn't afraid of that. And I wasn't worried about getting fired. I knew the risk. To me, it's not an ego thing. I enjoy coaching. I enjoy helping people achieve something.

It's not my job to hold your hand. It's my job to take motivated people and show them how to become better.

It is something I would like to do, to be a manager, but that's not assuming I will be. It's something that I can strive towards and see where it takes us.

I've never hidden the fact I'm ambitious at some point.

I was 20 years old and I said, 'Okay, if I can't get on TV by 25 then I'll consider another career.' You have to give yourself these arbitrary deadlines just to keep yourself focused and on track.